Road to Divorce England, 1530-1987

Name: Road to Divorce England, 1530-1987
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ISBN: 9780198226512

ISBN-10: 0198226519

ISBN-13: 9780198226512

Edition: 1990

Authors: Lawrence Stone

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* The first full study of a topic rich in historical interest and contemporary importance Despite the infamous divorce of Henry VIII in 1529, subsequent moral, political, and religious attitudes ensured that until 1857, England was the only Protestant country with virtually no facilities for full divorce on the grounds of adultery, desertion, or cruelty. Using a mass of transcribed legal testimonies, taken from hitherto unexplored court records, Professor Stone uncovers the means by which laity and lawyers reformed the divorce laws, and offers astonishingly frank and intimate insights into our ancestors' changing views about what makes a marriage. Using personal accounts in which witnesses…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Stone teaches history at Princeton University. With his semi-Marxist perspective, he examines class relationships and ambitions as explanatory factors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history.



List of plates


List of figures


List of tables


Abbreviations


General introduction


The law and custom of marriage


Contract marriage


From the Marriage Act of 1753 to 1868



The breaking of marriage: Desertion, elopement, and wife-sale


Private separation


Judicial separation


The action for criminal conversation


Parliamentary divorce


Divorce reform proposals 1604-1850


The passage to the Divorce Reform Act


Epilogue: The century of divorce law


Appendix: A list of pamphlets concerning the Marriage Act of 1753


Tables


Index